Allotments of Time
December 26, 2001
8:16 a.m.
It was a great Christmas day that included playing with presents and fiddling with the computer and all that stuff. Lisa got me a flight simulator, and I've so far managed to crash three or four Sopwith Camels and a Cessna. Who would have guessed that Snoopy was such a wiz, eh? We sat up Tuesday night and watched "It's a Wonderful Life" again, which is a great movie, but which also gets me upset because the danged television stations cut the thing to bits to cram in commercials seemingly every ten or fifteen seconds toward the end. Now this wouldn't be so bad except that the beginning had the usual screen that said the film had been shortened to fit into the allotted time span. "What they really meant," I said at one point "was that the film had been altered to fit into the time allotted by our sponsors." Santa fixed us up good this year, though. He put a DVD copy of the movie under our tree. Take that NBC.   That's another interesting economic study. How much advertising can you get away with before you drive people to tapes or DVDs? How much money does a television station lose when a person buy a DVD? How much when a thousand people buy a DVD? A million? Progress on the book is steady. I should probably mention that my e-mail host (sff.net) changed its e-mail server over the past few days, and I know of some e-mail that bounced prior to getting to me. Theoretically I guess it could have lost some that I sent, too. So if you either sent me something, or if you were expecting a reply and haven't gotten it, you might take it upon yourself to drop me a new note. Have a great day, eh?  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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 Brigid -- taken with her new camera |
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